TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fairlie, Robert W.
AU  - Robb, Alicia
        TI  - Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
        PY  - 2008/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3718
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3718
        AB  - Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work experience, and financial capital play in contributing to why female-owned businesses have lower survival rates, profits, employment and sales. We find that female-owned businesses are less successful than male-owned businesses because they have less startup capital, and business human capital acquired through prior work experience in a similar business and prior work experience in family business. We also find some evidence that female-owned businesses work fewer hours and may have different preferences for the goals of their business.
        KW  - female entrepreneurship
KW  - business outcomes
        ER  -